U Me Aur Hum (2008)

A dreamer who aspires to human flight is assigned public service after one of his attempts off a public building. This leads him to meeting a young woman, who is dying of motor neuron disease. The strong-willed woman admits her wish to be de-flowered before her death. The man, struggling to maintain his relationship with his girl friend, declines but offers to help pay for a gigolo to do the deed. The following events play off the inherent comedy and drama of the circumstances.

Thomas (Todeschini) se está muriendo y lo acepta con serenidad. Pero quiere esperar la muerte en la casa de la costa donde pasó su infancia. A su hermano Luc (Eric Caravaca), que lo acompaña, la dramática situación lo lleva a examinar su propia vida. (FILMAFFINITY)

A reflective look at the arrival and impact of AIDS in San Francisco and how individuals rose to the occasion during the first years of the crisis.

Rachel es una joven que no conoce a su padre hasta que lo encuentra en el funeral de su madre, para descubrir que está totalmente fuera de si y la confunde con su difunta madre.

Bruce Taylor works as a doctor at a mental hospital with a dark mysterious history. When the nightmares of a patient start to affect Bruce's sleep, he thinks he might be going crazy himself. Worse still, the discovery of an old human skull threatens everyone with disease. Bruce must call upon his father Anthony for help to figure out the truth behind the skull and stop the spread of the disease.

Un drama que compitió en la sección oficial del Festival de Cannes de 1979. Recibió dos nominaciones a los Premios César de la Academia de cine francesa: a la mejor fotografía y al mejor montaje.

Manuel is stuck in a monotonous job, has only one friend that he cannot stand, and his family despises him. Everything will change when the doctor diagnoses him with a rare disease - Manuel is going to turn into an elephant.

Diseases that were largely eradicated forty years ago are returning. Across the world children are dying from preventable conditions, because nervous parents are skipping their children's vaccinations. Yet the stories of vaccine injury are frightening, with rare cases of people being seriously hurt by vaccines. This documentary looks at the growing trend of vaccine hesitancy around the world, exploring the reasons for complacency and concerns, and highlighting the impact of delaying or refusing immunisation.

After the plague kills everyone they know, seven camp counselors quarantined themselves at the Quaker camp where they've spent every summer of their lives. Three months later, their sanity hangs by a thread. When something happens to upset the balance they've spent months establishing, they question their religious beliefs, their friendships and trust in each other, and whether there's anything else out there...waiting in the woods.

Aunque este fue puesto como una película de Cantinflas, que aparece sólo en 5 escenas cortas y no juega el comediante que conocemos y amamos. La película está protagonizada por Carlos Orellana, quien se entera de que va a morir pronto, por lo que vive como si no hubiera mañana. Deja caer un montón de dinero en vinos, se pone de pie a su mujer, y se instala todos los problemas a su alrededor. La historia y la actuación son moneda de diez centavos una docena. La caja dice que dura 104 minutos, pero es sólo el 88, y me alegré de ver que termina ahí.

Frank and Cam have been friends all their lives, Cam is on the High School Football team, coached by his dad, Frank is a promising runner, with a dream of completing a sub 4 minute mile and beating his arch rival. Cam persuades Frank to go to a party, when Frank wants to leave and Cam doesn't Frank decides to run home in the dark, with fatal consequences. Devastated by his friend's death and blaming himself, Cam decides to move from football to running with the goal of completing the sub 4 minute mile for his friend. A race against Frank's rival leaves the rival injured after falling off the track. The rival insults Frank and Cam starts a fight which leads to a disciplinary hearing, causing Cam to be banned from the championships. The rival organises another race though, to prove that he is better than Cam. The race is a close thing and Cam comes in a very close second, but in doing so breaks the 4 minute mile dream.

A painter goes on an exile after finding out he has Guillain Barre Syndrome, a rare disorder that prevents him from painting.

When doctors diagnosed 19-year-old rock star Jason Becker with Lou Gehrig's Disease, they said he would never make music again and that he wouldn’t live to see his 25th birthday. 22 years later, without the ability to move or to speak, Jason is alive and making music with his eyes.

The sea around Minamata was heavily polluted with mercury during the 1950s and 1960s from the Chisso Corporation's chemical factory. This highly toxic chemical bioaccumulated in shellfish and fish in the Yatsushiro Sea which, when eaten by the local populace, gave rise to Minamata disease. The disease was responsible for the deaths and disabling of thousands of residents, all around the Yatsushiro Sea. The marine ecosystem was also extensively damaged.

La historia gira en torno al personaje de Alain, un hombre que sale de la cárcel tras una condena de 18 meses por haber intentado pasar 50 kg de cannabis en su camión. Alain no es un sinvergüenza; sólo un hombre cansado. La prisión le salvó de encontrarse en un callejón sin salida e hizo que la gente se olvidase de él. Sin embargo, una vez en libertad, se ve obligado a irse a vivir con su madre, Yvette, una mujer modesta y desde hace tiempo incapaz de manifestarle su cariño. Su madre está en fase terminal de un cáncer y desearía acabar con su vida dignamente en Suiza, donde una asociación estaría siempre a su lado. (FILMAFFINITY)

It's early autumn and Dr. Headley eagerly demonstrates what seems to be a miraculous cure for tuberculosis. Not far from where he is working, the disease seems preparing to soon claim yet another life, a teenage girl named Winifred. Winifred's mother and little sister Trixie are devastated. When Trixie hears the family doctor say of Winifred that "when the last leaf falls, she will have passed away," she interprets the doctor's words literally. Thinking over what she has heard, she determines to do everything possible to save her sister.

Untrained, volunteer Nurses from America treat Allied soldiers behind and on the lines in France. They face the horrors of war, fight off the attentions of soldiers and face their own loneliness.

Rafael, torero de profesión, le brinda un toro a la famosa actriz Camelia, pero es cornado en esa misma corrida. La relación entre estas dos solitarias almas irá estrechándose, pero ella guarda ciertos secretos que poco a poco verán la luz, mientras el amor comienza a unir sus destinos.

In a futuristic society being decimated by plague, a fascist movement seizes power and quarantines not only the plague victims, but anyone related to them. Rebels trying to assassinate a particularly reactionary senator stumble onto a computer programmer trying to track and eradicate the disease.

This is the life story of Babe Didrikson Zaharias, one of the greatest athletes of the 20th century, from her early Texas tomboy days to her Gold Medal triumphs at the 1932 Olympics, her remarkable career as a champion golfer, her fulfilling marriage to wrestler George Zaharias, and the final battle with the only thing tougher than she was.